Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
Our online Searchable Best Books List draws from the committee's annual Best Children's Books of the Year-beginning with the list of books published in 2000-with each featuring more than 600 high-quality titles for young readers.
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Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop
by Alice Faye Duncan
Illustrator: R. Gregory Christie
Ages: 9+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Calkins Creek/Highlights
ISBN: 978-1-62979-718-2
Keywords: Martin Luther King, Discrimination, Civil Rights, Racism, Jr., Prejudice, Labor movement, African Americans
The story of the Memphis sanitation strike during the struggle for civil rights in 1968 is told through the eyes of a child. Striking illustrations. Back matter.